ABSTRACT
Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introducing Constructing
part |42 pages
Narrating Literary Histories
chapter |23 pages
Telling Postmodernist Stories
part |83 pages
(Mis)Reading Pynchon
part |80 pages
Reading Postmodernists
chapter |20 pages
The (Post)Modernism of the Name of the Rose
chapter |16 pages
“I Draw the Line as a Rule between One Solar System and Another”
The Postmodernism(s) of Christine Brooke-Rose
part |45 pages
At the Interface